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Definition of heat exchanger

JohnNY1
JohnNY1 Member Posts: 62
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How do YOU define "heat exchanger"? I need a good plain way to describe it for an upcoming discussion.

Thank you.

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  • Steve Ebels
    Steve Ebels Member Posts: 904
    Here's a stab at it

    Heat exchanger: A device utilized to transfer the temperature or heat from one heat storage medium (fluid, vapor or gas) to another. The two mediums are seperated typically by the wall of a plate or tube. The transfer of heat will always occur from the higher temperature medium to the lower temperature medium.

    Howzat?
  • John@Reliable_4
    John@Reliable_4 Member Posts: 101
    Yep,,what he said!

  • Tony Conner
    Tony Conner Member Posts: 549
    But You Can Also...

    ...consider an inground swimming pool surface area as a heat exchanger, as well as the outside surface area of a house or other structure, right? How about direct contact heaters like steam to water - where the steam is sparged directly into the water? This is a tricky thing to define :)

    Pretty much anywhere you've got a delta-T, you've got heat exchange. (Whether you want it or not.)
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